Semiconductor Materials & Components Industry Insights

Semiconductors are materials that can be conditioned to act as good conductors and insulators. Common types of semiconductor elements include carbon, silicon and germanium, where silicon is the best and most widely used material. These materials and components are being widely used in dish washers, microwave ovens and flat screens. The use of semiconductor materials and components has also been constantly increasing in cars, trains, ships, and aircrafts.

Factors such as the go green concept, wireless interconnectivity and increasing penetration of silicon into various aspects of daily life through their use in medical devices, micropayment systems, food chain control and personal identification are driving the growth of this industry.

The transformations taking place in the information technology (IT) industry have been positively impacting the market for several associated technologies. The enterprises have started to plan for optimized IT infrastructure, with adoption of more efficient solutions such as structured cabling. Hassle-free cabling has been emerging as the need of the hour as organizations have
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The growing automotive industry and increasing smartphone proliferation are the key growth drivers for the global microcontroller market. Globally, the automotive industry has been witnessing a period of moderately strong growth as well as profitability. The annual sales have surpassed prerecession levels in some of the economies.
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The global Intelligent Power Module (IPM) market is expected to experience considerable growth during the forecast period due to the increasing demand of compact system design, which helps in reducing the overall electronic system size. The compact design of intelligent power modules leads to reduction in number of components that must be purchased, stored and assembled.
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The microelectronics industry has experienced exponential growth in the packaging and fabrication technology over the past few years. The performance requirement, complexity and speed of RFICs have increased tremendously in past few years. Moreover, the price of the critical components used in RFICs manufacturing such as memory, logic functions, and central processing units (CPUs) has dropped considerably.
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VCSELs offer reliability, high efficiency, precision, and high speed with cost effective solution. Blue and green vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are based on indium gallium nitride. The blue and green vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are fuelling the growth of the market of small photonics devices such as laser pico projectors. Additionally, blue and green VCSELs are expected to find usage in laser printers with high density and high speed optical disk, and full color displays among others.
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The global chip on board (COB) light emitting diode (LED) market is growing, due to increasing investments in infrastructure, increasing need for energy efficient lighting, and regulatory initiatives. The advancement on design front is one of the major factors, providing ample growth opportunities for the global chip on board light emitting diode market. Two of the major factors
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The global carbon nanotubes (CNT) market is growing at a significant rate, due to growing electronics industry, technological advancements, and high demand from current applications of CNT. Additionally, the growth of polymer industry, increasing importance of alternate sources of energy and superior properties of CNT is also supporting the growth of the global market.
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The miniaturization of electronics products, in addition to high penetration of “more than moore” integrated circuit manufacturing technology are two of the major growth drivers for the global thin film material market. The increasing demand of thin film material from emerging MEMS application, increasing demand of power efficiency, supportable government policies, in addition
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Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor material. The performance benefits over its silicon counterparts, such as ability to operate at higher temperature, high frequency, high power density, along with higher operating voltage is driving the growth of the global gallium nitride semiconductor devices market. The increasing penetration of gallium nitride in RF power
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The global 3D NAND flash memory market is growing, due to increasing demand for solid state drives with increasing memory space for devices, such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones. The increasing need of small form factor and high memory requirement is supporting the increasing research and development activities. Electronic device manufacturers are one of the
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The global non-volatile dual in-line memory module market is growing due to increasing demand from data center and enterprise storage applications, and improved input/output (I/O) performance, low latency and data retention capabilities of the memory module. Several groups are also formed in some countries to increase the adoption of non-volatile memory module among the
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The growing demand of 3G and 4G LTE IC form Smartphones and tablets and other networking devices are fueling the growth of the global LTE IC market. The retail costs of smartphones are largely influenced by the cost of LTE IC integrated equipped in them. The LTE enabled phones are high in cost, since major smartphone manufacturers intend to increase profit, using LTE as a
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The global wirewound variable resistors market is growing, due to increased demand for electronic devices and equipment. To avoid the damage of commercial electronic and consumer electronics equipment owing to excess transfer of current, the equipment are provided with inbuilt wirewound resistors. The resistors protect the devices from damages by resisting fluctuations
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The primary driving force behind the sustained rapid growth of the global flash memory market is their use in cell phones. In addition, the multifunction cellular phone is building demand for higher memory capacities. High data transfer rate, less usage of power, small size, light weight, less production of heat, and long life are some of the factors driving the global flash memory
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The advancement in processing technology, such as chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) has facilitated the improved performance of the semiconductor devices at relatively lower unit cost, which is driving the growth of the global chemical mechanical planarization market. Chemical mechanical planarization is widely used in ultra-flat surface processing in
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The replacement of aging power distribution infrastructure in developed regions, along with high penetration of smart grids in the developing countries is driving the growth of the global silicon control rectifier market. Silicon control rectifiers are intensively used in power electronic applications, such as inverters, switches and controllers, from almost 50 years. The upsurge in
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Supercapacitors, also known as electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) are capable of storing large amount of energy. Earlier, the supercapacitors were largely consigned to monotonous applications, such as internal battery backup, and memory protection. However, the application for supercapacitor has extended significantly in recent years, owing to their increasing
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The global liquid encapsulation materials market is growing, due to upsurge in demand for consumer electronics products, increasing demand for advanced packaging techniques and trend of miniaturization of electronic products. The increasing automotive electronics application is providing ample opportunities for the growth of the global liquid encapsulation materials
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The constant technological advancements are one of the major growth drivers, supporting the growth of the global electrophoresis equipment and supplies market. The technological growth has improved the sensitivity, accuracy, reaction time, and analyzing speed of the electrophoresis equipment, which has led to the increased demand for electrophoresis equipment
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The shrinking size requirement in consumer electronics products, along with higher power saving potential of organic printed transistor, and memory are fueling its demand in lighting, signage, displays, electronic products, smart packaging, medical disposables, and smart labels. Low cost technology, and contact-less printing requirement are the important driving factors for the
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The potential use of millimeter wave technology in 5g technology, and worldwide scope in defense, military, and aerospace and satellite communication applications are the factors which are expected to provide significant opportunities for the growth of the military wave technology market, in the forecast period.
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The global quantum dots market was worth $961.4 million in 2014, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.4% during 2015-2020. Cadmium Selenide (CdSe) based quantum dots dominated the global market in 2014 with 30.3% share; whereas, among applications, the optoelectronics accounted for the highest share of 39.7% in global quantum dots market in the same year.
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